Midterm Review

Question 1

What is the Equal rights Amendment?

Answer 1

-Proposed amendment to the Constitution that banned gender discrimination

Question 2

What are Jim Crow Laws?

Answer 2

-Law passed by southern states that enforced segregation

Question 3

What is the three-fifths compromise?

Answer 3

-Counted each slave as three-fifths a person when calculating the representation in the House of Representatives

Question 4

What is Judicial Review?

Answer 4

-Courts authority to declare laws void, that violate the Constitution

Question 5

What is general election?

Answer 5

-Final election that selects an officeholder

Question 6

What is the primary election?

Answer 6

-Narrows the number of the parties candidates and determines who will run in the general election

Question 7

What is an initiative?

Answer 7

-Proposed law or state constitutional amendment placed on the ballot in response to a citizen petition

Question 8

What is Civil Rights?

Answer 8

-General rights to equal treatment under the law.

Question 9

What is the appropriation process?

Answer 9

• Process of providing funding for governmental programs

- How to spend budget

Question 10

What is agenda setting?

Answer 10

• Making an issue so visible that important political leader take it seriously
• Determine the subject of conflicts

Question 11

What is Checks and balances?

Answer 11

• Constitutional division of power into separate branches

- Gives each institution the power to block the actions of the others

Question 12

What is the 1st Amendment?

Answer 12

-Freedom of speech, press, religion, and to protest

Question 13

What is the 4th Amendmenft?

Answer 13

-Bans unreasonable searches and seizures

Question 14

What is the 5th Amendment?

Answer 14

-Govt cant deprive citizens of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.

Question 15

What is the 8th Amendment?

Answer 15

• Prevents federal government from imposing excessive bail and fines
• Prevents cruel and unusual punishment

Question 16

Pork-barrel spending?

Answer 16

• A representative will try to do as much for there constituents and spend funds to gain advantage
• A member of the appropriations committee that spends money towards state or district

Question 17

What is constituency

Answer 17

-ppl being represented by person in ofgice

Question 18

What is democracy?

Answer 18

-A government which all citizens share power

Question 19

McCulloch vs. Maryland

Answer 19

-S.C. first used judicial review to declare a state law unconstitutional

Question 20

Affirmative Action?

Answer 20

-Programs designed to enhance opportunities for race or gender based groups

Question 21

What is the importance of a Committee Chair?

Answer 21

• Gatekeeping

- Agenda Setting

Question 22

What is a representative democracy?

Answer 22

-People vote for a representative that best represent their interests

Question 23

What is direct democracy?

Answer 23

-Citizens vote for initiatives

Question 24

What is Gatekeeping?

Answer 24

-Power of committee chair to set agendas and determine whether a bill dies or moves on